From: wbe@UBEBLOCK.psr.com.invalid   
      
   Harry Newton  asked:   
   > Anyone know if the massive CPU flaw (Meltdown & Spectre) are in our WiFi   
   > devices?   
      
   Based on the same news reports you've probably seen...   
      
   These vulnerabilities only allow reading by unprivileged processes of   
   what should be protected (and unreadable) kernel memory, which, in   
   theory, might contain privileged information.  However, the attacks require   
   the attacker to run code on the machine in question.   
      
   That might, in theory, be done via a web browser if it runs code from a   
   malicious web site, though I think doing that and getting anything   
   useful would be hard.  The case of cloud computing is a more likely   
   attack platform, since a legitimate customer might be able to obtain   
   information about other customers running on the same machine.   
      
   I don't see these being an issue for routers, regardless of what chip   
   they use.  To the extent routers even have a kernel, I don't think   
   there's all that much privileged information in it, and if your router   
   is already compromised enough that an attacker can run code on it at   
   all, you've already lost.   
    -WBE   
      
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